Rudolf Viest

Rudolf Viest (24 September 1890-1945) was a General of Czechoslovakia who led the Czechoslovak 1st Army during the Slovak National Uprising in World War II.

Biography
Rudolf Viest was born on 24 September 1890 in Revuca, Gomor es Kis-Hont County, Austria-Hungary. Viest fought in World War I with the Austro-Hungarian Army before serving in the Czechoslovak Legion, and he fought in the Russian Civil War. In 1938, he was the only Slovak to reach the rank of General in the Czechoslovak Army, and he went into exile in 1942 after Nazi Germany set up the First Slovak Republic as a puppet state. In August 1944 he headed back home to lead the Slovak National Uprising with 78,000 troops of the Czechoslovak 1st Army, but he was captured alongside Jan Golian. Viest was sent to the Flossenburg concentration camp, where he died sometime in 1945.